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#Alive

2020
Horror ‧ Thriller ‧ Drama ‧ Zombie
IBDM Rating: 6.3/10

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.  One day, the news reports that a mysterious, rapidly-spreading disease is causing the infected to eat one another, and the government has lost control. The man has to survive the scenario alone while the world is trying to learn to deal with the outrageous outbreak.

Director: Cho Il
Cast: Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-hye


The babysitter: Killer Queen

2020
Thriller ‧ Drama ‧ Teen ‧ Comedy
IBDM Rating: 6.4/10

Two year after Cole survived attack by a satanic blood cult led by his babysitter, he’s now coping up with a new nightmare in his life, living a high school life. But his demons from past come back to make his life hell.      

Director: McG
Writers: Dan Lagana (screenplay), McG (screenplay)
Cast: Bella Thorne, Leslie Bibb, Emily Alyn Lind, Robbie Amell, Judah Lewis


Capital in the Twenty-First Century

2019
Documentary
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10

A documentary examining wealth accumulation and its looming social repercussions in the world. This documentary is highly based on economist Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book, this documentary

Director: Justin Pemberton
Cast: Gillian Tett, Kate Williams, Ian Bremmer, Faiza Shaheen


Unbroken

2014
Gritty ‧ Drama ‧ Inspiring‧ Real Life

IMDB Rating: 7.2/10

Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen after surviving a near-fatal plane crash in WWII. Later, he gets caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Director: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson


Freaks: You’re One of Us

2020
Action ‧ Drama ‧ Fantasy
IMDB Rating: 5.3/10

Tipped by a mysterious tramp, a meek fry cook discovers she has superpowers — and uncovers an unsavory, vast conspiracy.

Director: Felix Binder
Cast: Cornelia Gröschel, Tim Oliver Schultz, Wotan Wilke Möhring


Love, Guaranteed

2020
RomCom Comedy Drama
IBDM Rating: 5.6/10

After 1,000 first dates, he’s still single. So, to sue a dating site that guarantees its users will find love, he hires a cash-strapped attorney. But as the case heats up, so do Susan and Nick’s feelings for each other.

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Damon Wayans Jr., Heather Graham, Caitlin Howden, Brendan Taylor, Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez, Sean Amsing, Lisa Durupt, Alvin Sanders, Jed Rees, Kandyse McClure


Trinkets Season 2

2019 – 2020
Comedy ‧ Drama ‧ Crime ‧ Teen Drama
IMDB Rating – 7.1/10

Trinkets is an American teen drama series, based on the Kirsten Smith’s book of the same name. It’s a story of an unexpected friendship formed between three teenage girls who meet in Shoplifters Anonymous. Coming from different cultures with different personalities, the three characters, Elodie – an introvert; Moe – a punk styled teen and Tabitha whose wealthy brat. They form a deep bond as they find that each one of them has a weakness for shoplifting.

Creators: Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer, Kirsten Smith

Cast: Brianna Hildebrand, Kiana Madeira, Quintessa Swindell


The Umbrella Academy

2019 – 2020
Action ‧ SciFi ‧ Thriller ‧ Drama ‧ Time Travel
IMDB Rating – 8/10

Billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopts seven extraordinary children out of 43 infants who were born to random women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before in 1983. Children are grown up to be superheroes under Reginalds’s the Umbrella Academy which prepares them to save the world. Grown together as a family, in current times, heroes scattered across cities come together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s death end up saving the world from the imminent threat of global apocalypse.

The series is based on a collection of comics and graphic novels created and written by Gerard Way.

Creators: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater

Stars: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda